Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Hiiaka Found Wahine-omao, sentence 80
Stepping sideways was my thought to see my family dwelling in this house—then journey on.”
Who acts: Stepping, family · What happens: step, be, see, dwell · To what, where: sideways, thought, family, house
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, How Hiiaka Found Wahine-omao. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Stepping, family), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stepping | step | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 thought | csubj |
| 2 | sideways | sideway | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Stepping | obj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 thought | cop |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 thought | nmod:poss |
| 5 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 see | mark |
| 7 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 thought | acl |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 family | nmod:poss |
| 9 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 see | obj |
| 10 | dwelling | dwell | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 family | acl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 house | case |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 house | det |
| 13 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dwelling | obl |
| 14 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 journey | punct |
| 15 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 journey | advmod |
| 16 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 thought | appos |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 journey | compound:prt |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 journey | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 journey | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | step | gerund | sideways | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location sideway=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | Stepping | my thought | my nmod:poss; journey appos | tree rules | |||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | my family | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer family=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | dwell | gerund | my family not said here | this house | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Project Gutenberg book 66516 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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